Our General Donation Fund
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Our General Donation Fund
Support Our General Donation Fund Today
Our General Donation Fund is a shared effort to support (1) Increased outreach, access and high quality DanceSport instruction at affordable cost to the schools, students and parents, and (2) Alleviate financial barriers that stand in the way of finding and developing thriving and achieving dancesport athletes.
Provide Financial Support to Increase Outreach, Access and High Quality Education:
With the current trends of diminishing public funding for sports and arts programs, and the inability of many parents to privately afford those, especially in low-income, at risk school communities, children and youth remain negatively impacted and are deprived of participating and experiencing the benefits of those opportunities. This also includes the students, who are homeschooled, or study in distance learning programs, as well as those with special needs, for whom we will provide a venue, so that they have access and opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities. Sadly, the talent of many children remains unnoticed and unrealized. At DanceSport Education, we are committed to offer children and youth the best DanceSport curriculum and the highest quality instruction, delivered by top-class instructors to the students at their schools at affordable prices.
Your contribution to the General Donation Fund supports:
- Wide outreach, promotional and marketing on-going campaigns, including social media, to increase access and offer opportunities to underserved children and youth, including at-risk, low income, special needs, homeschooled and distance learning.
- DanceSport curriculum development and refinement;
- DanceSport instructional methodology development and refinement;
- DanceSport instructional materials development, including training video materials production for children and youth, produced with our own DanceSport Education Ambassadors and Sponsored Athletes;
- Teacher professional development programs to continually improve the quality of instruction;
- Teacher pay to subsidize the cost of high quality instruction, time and travel to the schools and places of practice;
- Community outreach programs, including parent education nights;
- Demo lessons for students, teachers, parents and schools;
- Our own, DanceSport Education competition events, including proficiency level competitive events;
- Special DanceSport events, such as "Dancing Stars, Where the Stars are our Kids", "Dancing Stars, Where the Stars are our Teachers", "Dancing Stars, Where the Stars are our Parents".
Provide Financial Support to Develop Competitive Athletic Talent:
As a sport, DanceSport is a relatively new sport in the U.S. and dancesport athletes do not receive the financial underwriting of those in other established sports. We are dedicated to the success of the DanceSport athletes. We want them to continue to learn, grow and develop competitively and remove any financial barriers that might stand in their way to get noticed, realize their talent and succeed at the top.
Your contribution to the General Donation Fund supports:
- DanceSport athletic curriculum development and refinement;
- DanceSport athletic instructional methodology development and refinement;
- Teacher professional development programs to continually improve the quality of athletic instruction;
- Developing and implementing a cross training curriculum for our young DanceSport athletes to improve strength, agility, endurance and injury prevention;
- Developing a DanceSport cross training curriculum for competitive athletes, including Middle and High School school competitive athletes;
- Addressing the nutritional and wellness needs of young competitive DanceSport athletes by developing age-appropriate nutritional and supplement formulations;
Student scholarships for:
- Competitive group and private instruction;
- DanceSport competition participation, including travel, competition registration fees, professional and coaching fees, hotel accommodations, etc.;
- Mastery camps participation;
- Intensive workshops participation;
- Coaching sessions;
- Cross training participation;
- Sports psychology training;
- Competition gear – competition attire and shoes.
